muông

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬 muaŋ⁶ ("civet").

Aside from a few compounds, the word is no longer used in Vietnamese. It also seems to once function as a classifier for a few animals, as attested in (in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum) and  (in the Thi kinh giải âm, 詩經解音, a  quasi-translation of the Shijing).

The undiphthongized form of this word might be preserved in the name of, located in northern Thanh Hoá.

Noun

 * 1)  a quadruped